| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Brodrick |
Dr. Christie-Joy Brodrick (Assistant Professor#COMMA#Integrated Science and Technology) received $637#COMMA#500 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for "SHENAIR Institute: Applied Meteorological Research" to begin developing a modeling system to test different air quality control strategies and to determine the most significant sources of air pollution in the Shenandoah Valley. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Campbell |
Caroline G. Campbell (Associate Director#COMMA# Health Promotion#COMMA# University Health Center) received $6#COMMA#000 from the Virginia Department of Health to initiate positive tobacco use control policy changes throughout Virginia. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Critzer |
Penelope Critzer (Co-Director#COMMA# Shenandoah Valley Child Development Clinic) received $274#COMMA#790 from the Virginia Department of Health to achieve community-based service systems for children with special health care needs and their families and $81#COMMA#787 from the Virginia Department of Education to support the education programs of the clinic. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
DeGaris |
Dr. Laurence A. DeGaris (Associate Professor#COMMA# Kinesiology and Recreation Studies) received $15#COMMA#000 from the Home Depot to develop a customized report on the results of NASCAR sponsorship. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Eaton |
Dr. L. Scott Eaton (Associate Professor#COMMA# Geology and Environmental Science) received $10#COMMA#000 from the National Park Service to collect documents and to prepare a text synthesizing the current knowledge of geologic resources of Shenandoah National Park and $4#COMMA#669 from the Virginia Department of Mines#COMMA# Minerals and Energy for "Surficial Geologic Investigation on the Grottoes and Vesuvius 7.5 minute Quadrangles" to investigate or map deposits#COMMA# including alluvial fans#COMMA# to support mapping projects. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Foucar-Szocki |
Dr. Diane L. Foucar-Szocki (Professor#COMMA# Education; Interim Director#COMMA# Adult Degree Program) received $52#COMMA#675 from the Virginia Department of Education for "Reel-to-Real" to provide curriculum enhancement to beginner and intermediate English language learners in fiscal year 2006. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Haworth |
Elizabeth Haworth (Interim Assistant Director#COMMA# Furious Flower Poetry Center) received $250 from the Virginia Commission for the Arts for "Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: A Seminar and Poetry Reading by T.J. Anderson III#COMMA#" a workshop on the influence of music in poetry. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Heydari Bahn |
Dr. M. Hossain Heydari (Professor#COMMA# Computer Science) and Dr. Kenneth D. Bahn (Director#COMMA# MBA Program; Professor#COMMA# Marketing) received $3#COMMA#566 from the National Security Agency for a scholarship program to provide students with advanced knowledge and skills necessary to better protect information technology infrastructure. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Hubbell |
Jane Hubbell (Adjunct Assistant Professor#COMMA# Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $15#COMMA#000 from the Central Shenandoah Health District for "Parents in Prevention - Teen Pregnancy Prevention" to provide oversight and programs to decrease the number of out-of-wedlock births in the area. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Huber |
Dr. Vida S. Huber (Associate Dean#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology) received $93#COMMA#738 from the Valley AIDS Network to provide specified administrative services. Huber also received $10#COMMA#000 from the Alzheimer's Association Central and Western Virginia Chapter to provide specified administrative services. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Kolvoord |
Dr. Robert A. Kolvoord (Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology) received $6#COMMA#056 from Harrisonburg City Schools to provide onsite support for educational technology use for teachers in the four Harrisonburg elementary schools and Thomas Harrison Middle School. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Lamb |
Susan F. Lamb (Business Manager#COMMA# WMRA-FM) received a $190#COMMA#623 community service grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the station. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Lopes-Murphy |
Dr. Solange A. Lopes-Murphy (Associate Professor#COMMA# Secondary Education) received $166#COMMA#421 from the U.S. Department of Education for "Enhancing Effective Teaching of Limited English Proficient Students#COMMA# Year 5" to provide professional development in English-as-a-Second-Language education to non-ESL secondary education teachers#COMMA# school administrators and higher education faculty in a geographic area with a rapidly growing Limited English Proficient population. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
McCabe |
Jennifer A. McCabe (Health and Human Services Librarian#COMMA# Libraries and Educational Technologies; Assistant Professor#COMMA# Health and Human Services) received $158#COMMA#593 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to produce a series of educational games that help develop health literacy and information literacy skills. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
McMullen |
Dr. Conley K. McMullen (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Biology) received $1#COMMA#250 from the Virginia Academy of Science to prepare a taxonomic revision of the endemic members of Cordia in the Galapagos Islands. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Minbiole |
Dr. Kevin P. Minbiole (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Chemistry) received $1#COMMA#426 from DuPont Crop Protection to synthesize biologically relevant natural products and related structures for testing and evaluation of properties useful for agricultural and horticultural crop protection agents. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Nasim |
Dr. Aashir X. Nasim (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Psychology) received $15#COMMA#000 from the American Educational Research Association to use a sociocognitive model of media literacy to examine the effectiveness of a critical viewing skills training program designed to reduce substance use expectancies and behaviors. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Noftsinger Knight |
Dr. John B. Noftsinger Jr. (Associate Vice President#COMMA# Academic Affairs; Associate Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology and Education) and Elizabeth B. Knight (Director#COMMA# Economic Development and Partnership Programs) received $11#COMMA#119 from Page County to assist with an economic development project. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Nye |
Christopher B. Nye (Executive Director#COMMA# Blue Ridge Area Health Education Center) received $35#COMMA#854 from the Virginia Health Care Foundation for "Project Connect" to continue outreach and one-to-one children's health insurance enrollment assistance for families. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Raab McKown Coffman |
Dr. Ronald W. Raab (Associate Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology)#COMMA# Dr. Robert L. McKown (Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology) and Dr. George L. Coffman (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology) received four grants from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases -- two grants totaling $54#COMMA#700 to use Bacillus anthracis DNA as starting material to either subclone the genes of interest into protein expression vectors or to develop a purification scheme for use with agency-produced expression vector clones#COMMA# $8#COMMA#500 to use Versina pestis genes DNA as starting material to either subclone the genes of interest into protein expression vectors or to develop a purification scheme for use with agency-produced expression vector clones and $4#COMMA#000 to use Bacillus anthracis of CapD DNA as starting material to either subclone the genes of interest into protein expression vectors or to develop a purification scheme for use with agency-produced expression vector clones. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Reed |
Dr. Vicki A. Reed (Head and Professor#COMMA# Communication Sciences and Disorders) received $138#COMMA#135 from the Virginia Department of Education to assist bachelor's degree-level speech-language clinicians employed by public schools in Virginia to obtain master's degrees. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Schwartz |
Dr. Katherine A. Schwartz (Associate Professor#COMMA# Art and Art History) received $4#COMMA#000 from the Arts Council of the Valley for the JMU Summer Art Education Program to teach students to see#COMMA# create and understand art and to make informed judgments about works of art. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Sternberger |
Dr. Lee G. Sternberger (Executive Director#COMMA# International Programs; Assistant Vice President#COMMA# Academic Affairs) received $14#COMMA#000 from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance the knowledge and tools available to higher education for assessing international learning. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Stewart |
Dr. Stephen H. Stewart (Director of Strategic Alliances and Special Projects#COMMA# College of Integrated Science and Technology; Professor#COMMA# Health Sciences) received $115#COMMA#931 from Alpha Epsilon Delta to maintain the premedical honor society national headquarters office. |
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| 2005 | October |
Grant |
Wiggins |
Dr. Bruce A. Wiggins (Professor#COMMA# Biology) received $2#COMMA#770 from the City of Harrisonburg to measure the amount of fecal (bacterial) pollution in Blacks Run. |
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| 2005 | October |
Publication |
Bersson |
Dr. Robert Bersson (Professor Emeritus#COMMA# Art and Art History) wrote the cover story#COMMA# "Building the Literature of Art Pedagogy#COMMA#" in CAA News#COMMA# the newsletter of the College Art Association#COMMA# September 2005. |
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| 2005 | October |
Publication |
Eksterowicz |
Dr. Anthony J. Eksterowicz (Professor#COMMA# Political Science) and Nancy B. Eksterowicz#COMMA# an advanced practice nurse affiliated with the University of Virginia Health System#COMMA# Pain Services#COMMA# published a chapter#COMMA# "The Influence of Political Ideology on Pain Care and Stem Cell Research#COMMA#" in "Trends in Stem Cell Research#COMMA#" a book published by Nova Science Publishers Inc. |
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| 2005 | October |
Publication |
Kimsey Della Noce |
Dr. William D. Kimsey (Professor#COMMA# Communication Studies)#COMMA# Dr. Dorothy J. Della Noce (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Communication Studies) and Sallye S. Trobaugh of Mediation Associates LLC Harrisonburg recently published a textbook#COMMA# "Mediator Communication Competencies: Problem-Solving and Transformative Practices#COMMA#" 5th edition#COMMA# Pearson Publishing in Boston. |
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| 2005 | October |
Publication |
Owusu-Ansah Lanier |
Dr. David Owusu-Ansah (Professor#COMMA# History; Co-Director of the Africana Studies Program) has published the third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Ghana (Scarecrow Press#COMMA# Division of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group). The 400-plus-page dictionary is dedicated to the late history Professor Daniel Miles McFarland#COMMA# who was the original author of the first edition and was also listed as co-author of the 1995 second edition. Dr. Gabrielle Lanier (Associate Professor#COMMA# History) produced the maps appearing in the dictionary. Additionally#COMMA# Owusu-Ansah's piece on "Islam in Ashante" is appearing in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia of Islam. |
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| 2005 | October |
Publication |
Pham |
Dr. J. Peter Pham (Assistant Professor#COMMA# Justice Studies) has had a book#COMMA# "Child Soldiers#COMMA# Adult Interests: Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy#COMMA#" published by Nova Science Publishers Inc. His newest book went on sale Oct. 1. |
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| 2005 | October |
Appointments |
Reif |
Dr. Harry L. Reif (Associate Professor#COMMA# Information Technology & Management Science) was elected to the board of directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Harrisonburg-Rockingham County. Reif was also elected to the board of the International Telecommunications Education and Research Association. |
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| 2005 | October |
Exhibition |
Yoon |
Sang Yoon (Professor#COMMA# Art and Art History) is exhibiting a sampling of her graphic design works at Eastern Mennonite University in the third-floor gallery of Hartzler Library through Oct. 7. Yoon described the exhibition as self-motivated pieces that are expressions of political#COMMA# social and cultural changes and events. |
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| 2005 | October |
Presentation |
Askary Kohen |
Mohammed Askary (Visiting Assistant Professor#COMMA# Religion) and Dr. Andrew Kohen (Professor#COMMA# Economics) spoke about the Muslim and Jewish perspectives on peace#COMMA# respectively#COMMA# Sept. 1 at the Massanutten Regional Library. Joining Askary and Kohen at the public forum sponsored by Veterans for Peace was Dr. William Abshire#COMMA# the Anna B. Mow Endowed Professor of Philosophy and Religion and chair of the department at Bridgewater College. |
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| 2005 | October |
Presentation |
Carothers |
Dr. David C. Carothers (Head and Professor#COMMA# Mathematics)#COMMA# a 1975 Distinguished Alumnus of Westminster College in Pennsylvania#COMMA# spoke at his alma mater Sept. 23. |
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| 2005 | October |
Presentation |
Miles |
Dr. Jonathan J. Miles (Professor#COMMA# Integrated Science and Technology) presented "A Model Undergraduate Curriculum for Renewable Energy" Sept. 19 at a conference on Renewable Energies in Malta and Beyond at the Institute for Energy and Technology at the University of Malta. |
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| 2005 | October |
Presentation |
Morey |
Dr. Ann-Janine Morey (Associate Dean#COMMA# Cross Disciplinary Studies) gave an invited talk#COMMA# "General Education in the Post-Factual Age#COMMA#" at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for the 10-Year Anniversary Celebration of the University Core Curriculum#COMMA# Oct. 7. Morey was presented with a plaque inscribed#COMMA# "in sincere appreciation for implementing an outstanding Core Curriculum Program for the Students of Southern Illinois University" in recognition of her role as director from 1993-99. |
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